Zhenkai Liang

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Multimodal Models (2)Eval Frameworks & Benchmarks (1)Interpretability & Mechanistic Interp (1)Reasoning & Chain-of-Thought (1)

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XiuYu Zhang (1)Junfeng Fang (1)Chenhang Cui (1)Gelei Deng (1)

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Jun 4, 2026

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Cosine Misleads: Auxiliary Losses Reshape Vision Language Models, Not Their Latents

Cosine alignment in vision-language models may mislead researchers, as it correlates negatively with accuracy, revealing that latents are often bypassed in reasoning.

XiuYu Zhang, Junfeng Fang, Zhenkai Liang

Eval Frameworks & Benchmarks Multimodal Models

Feb 22, 2026

Do LLMs and VLMs Share Neurons for Inference? Evidence and Mechanisms of Cross-Modal Transfer

LLMs and LVLMs share more than half their top-activated neurons during multi-step inference, opening a surprisingly cheap path to boost vision-language reasoning by transplanting skills from text-only models.

Chenhang Cui, Gelei Deng, Jingnan Zheng +2

Interpretability & Mechanistic Interp Multimodal Models Reasoning & Chain-of-Thought

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